Complete catalogue

The paintings presented within this catalogue span more than five decades of Bill Gillon’s artistic development and reveal a continual evolution of style, technique, and symbolic complexity. Early works often explored more abstract and experimental approaches to composition, colour, and form before gradually developing into the highly controlled figurative and symbolic paintings for which Bill became best known. Across later decades, his work demonstrated an extraordinary command of surface, light, and anatomical observation, particularly in the rendering of flesh and skin, where realism was balanced with atmosphere, symbolism, and psychological tension. Throughout these changing phases, Bill remained committed to painting as a disciplined craft rooted in drawing, observation, imagination, and sustained technical refinement.